Once again SUUSI has come and gone. This year it started out with a bang (of thunder) at Ingathering, with a rainbow greeting us afterwards, like a foreboding of good times to come. The theme was "Time to Fly", and that worked into the themes of many of the people there. To me the theme means that sometimes one feels too tied down to things, and needs to break out of the rut, and soar into the sky. The problem then is finding somewhere to land. One slogan I remember well from SUUSI: Either you find a place to land, or you learn how to fly. One theme talker, Steve Crump, even said that flying is related to relationships and love - you need somewhere to fly from, and that implies a relationship between the flyer and the land.
I attended the Day at the Improv workshop. This featured many interesting and funny situations, such as the sex shop scene between two people. The next two were supposed to tell it as a Western, and the next pair as if it were from a science fiction movie. This reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter's (Gödel, Escher, Bach) subjunct-TV, which is not one grade lower than a junk TV, as one of Mr. Hofstadter's characters suggested. Instead, one uses it to take a scene and tune it in to various situations. For example, a football game is turned to another channel and we see what it would be like as a baseball game, or as a game played on the moon, or as a game played in four dimensions (the 40-yard plane, the 30-yard plane…).
I gave three workshops, including a new one on Mathematics and Religion, in which I explored the depths of infinity. I went to the Cascades and Dismal Falls, and had fun swimming in those refreshing mountain pools, even though the hike in both places was abridged or changed by recent flooding.
Cabaret featured all the good entertainment, such as Amy Carol Webb and Greg Greenway, and Serendipity featured a hybrid of dancing and volleyball on Thursday night, when we started bopping beach balls all over the place on a night billed as "Down by the SUUSea". Maybe we should have dressed in beach volleyball style - in swimsuits and bikinis.
A good SUUSI, and we are now flying away to SUUSI 2006, where we will Rejoice and Renew.
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